Special Containment Procedures: SCP-#### is to be kept in a standard storage locker, and requires Level-2 clearance or higher to access. When not in use, SCP-#### must not come into contact with any smooth surface with written or printed language on it. When in transit, SCP-#### is to be contained in a soundproof lockbox containing no written or printed language on any its interior or exterior surface. Leads regarding AfterWorld Connections are to be investigated by Mobile Task Forces​ Psi-8 ("The Silencers") and Omega-16 ("Grail Knights").

Description: SCP-#### is a teardrop shaped wooden planchette1. The top surface of SCP-#### is decorated with pictures of a sun and a moon on left and right side of the base, respectively, and the Greek letters alpha and omega overlapping near the tip. Within the center of SCP-#### is a glass lens used for viewing individual letters. SCP-#### stands on three copper legs bottomed with black velvet.

When SCP-#### comes into contact with a smooth surface containing any sort of printed or written language, it will fix itself to a single position. SCP-#### will remain in this fixed position until removed by hand or until SCP-#### enters its active state. Attempts to move SCP-#### by mechanical means have proven ineffective.

SCP-#### will enter its active state when a single subject, hereby referred to as SCP-####-A, verbally speaks the name of a deceased individual, hereby referred to as SCP-####-B, three times within audible range of SCP-####, regardless of context. Once active, SCP-#### will move across its adhered surface and magnify individual letters to spell replies from SCP-####-B to statements spoken within audible range of SCP-####. Each SCP-####-B instance appears​ to have all knowledge and personality traits of aforementioned deceased individuals. SCP-#### will remain in active state until it is removed from its adhered surface.

An instruction sheet found with SCP-#### identifies the object as an "Oracle Eye by AfterWorld Connections” (See Document ####-1).

Hello and thank you for receiving theORACLE EYE
By AfterWorld Connections

Those of us here at AfterWorld Connections are terribly sorry for your loss, but death need not be the end for you and your loved one. Just place the Oracle Eye on anything you can read, say their name three times, and you'll be speaking with them in no time! However, there are a few basic rules that you must follow when speaking with those from beyond:

1. Those under the age of 10 are not allowed use our Oracle Eye for longer than 5 minutes in a single day. After a long life your loved ones would like to rest, you'll have plenty of time to talk to them one day. The Operator will let you know when you have reached this limit. Those over the age of 10 are able to speak to their loved ones for longer. Ask the Operator for details.

2. Be sure to place the Oracle Eye somewhere with no readable surfaces when you're finished contacting your loved ones. Leaving this Oracle Eye unattended is similar to leaving a phone off the hook. Every second is counted, even if you're not there.

3. Please take the Operator's warnings seriously. The Operator is the one that is making it possible for you to speak with your loved ones and will remind you when you are breaking one of the rules that we cannot fit on this pamphlet. It is very rude to disregard. someone doing you a kindness.

If you have any questions, please feel free to speak with the Operator, time speaking with them is not limited. Just place the Oracle Eye on a good surface and say "I wish to speak to the Operator."

AfterWorld Connections is not responsible for any damages or injury that may occur from misuse or overuse of this Oracle Eye. By using this Oracle Eye you agree to the Terms and Conditions of AfterWorld Connections.

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG

SCP-####-1, referred to in the above document as "the Operator", is a non-corporeal entity believed to be what makes SCP-#### function. SCP-####-1 communicates through vibration of the glass lens in the center of SCP-####, mimicking vocalizations.

After 5 minutes of use within a 24 hour period, SCP-#### will cease all movement and SCP-####-1 will interrupt interaction. In each test where SCP-####-A is over the age of 10, SCP-####-1 has said the following at the point of interruption:

Thank you for using the Oracle Eye by AfterWorld Connections. You have used your free time for the day. To continue speaking to your loved one a toll must be applied at the rate of one moment of peace of mind for one moment of physical suffering. Will you accept this toll?

Toll acceptance is triggered when an affirmative word2 is spoken by SCP-####-A within audible range of SCP-####, regardless of context. Activity of SCP-#### and SCP-####-B remain the same after acceptance of the toll with acknowledgement of the time passed.

Approximately 5-20 minutes after interaction with SCP-####-B has ceased, if toll acceptance was triggered, SCP-####-A will show symptoms of an after-use effect. Duration of these effects matches the duration of interaction with SCP-####-B after toll acceptance. Research into all tested SCP-####-B instances has shown similarities between the current active effect and SCP-####-B's cause of death. Use of any medication or known treatment for symptoms of SCP-####'s after-use effects have proven ineffective throughout duration of the effect.

Discovery: SCP-#### was discovered on ██/██/201█ in ███████, ██, USA, during investigation of a potential wild instance of a viral SCP. SCP-#### was found with the remains of M██████ F████████ in her home, with Document ####-1, and was then taken into Foundation custody. Investigation into M██████ F███████ showed no symptoms of infection prior to death, and no cover story was formed. M██████ F███████ has been interviewed using SCP-#### (See Test Log ####-01 Excerpt).

Ostrowski: I am currently writing everything you spell down. Feel free to use full sentences, if you can.

M██████: It was in a small package on my doorstep after the funeral. It came with a note attached to it saying: "When grief strikes hard, there is always an ear to listen." I thought it was some sick joke.

Ostrowski: Then what made you use the Eye?

M██████: After a while the memories could only do so much. I figured it was worth a shot. I had to write everything down, but I knew it was him. When that thing offered the toll, I didn't even think. I just accepted.

Ostrowski: What happened after you accepted the toll?

M██████: For the time I continued to talk to him, nothing. After I put the Eye back in the box I started to feel warm. It got hotter and hotter. Last thing I remember is passing out from the heat.

Research into M██████ F███████'s personal life revealed that her significant other, D███ L██████, was a fatality amongst the firefighters during the 201█ wildfires near ███████, ██.

Effect:

No effect has been observed.

SCP-#### Test #: 4

SCP-####-A: D-23805

SCP-####-B: S██████ H█████, cousin of D-23805

Toll Duration: 15 minutes

SCP-####-B’s Cause of Death: Pneumonia, age 46; 2 years prior to test.

Instructions: SCP-####-A is to be placed in a separate chamber with a microphone connected to a speaker in the primary test chamber with SCP-####. D-26830, referred to in this test as SCP-####-C, is to be placed in the primary test chamber with a microphone connected to the secondary chamber to repeat replies to SCP-####-A.

Instructions: Agent ████████ ███████ received permission to use SCP-#### to retrieve information of SCP-####-B's last mission. D-75309 will be designated SCP-####-A in order to accept the toll on behalf of Agent ████████.

Approximately 5 minutes after interaction, SCP-####-A has reported feeling a "burning pressure" in the center of his forehead.

2 minutes after this report SCP-####-A began to bleed from the area he reported was in pain. Bleeding and pain continued for the remainder of the after-use effect, with the wound growing at a slow steady rate.

After duration of the effect, wound was capable of being​ treated with standard first aid.

SCP-####-A: Weird, how? I would think us even talking right now would be weird enough.

SCP-####-B: True. Well, this thing just came up to me and asked if I wanted to talk to you. Oh course, I say yes. After that, it turns around and it has something kind of like a keyboard on its back, the letters are in order though. But, I somehow hear you through the thing and I tap out what I want to say back onto the keyboard.

SCP-####-1: Thank you for using the Oracle Eye by AfterWorld Connections. We are sorry to interrupt your conversation but we have detected the following rule break: attempt to obtain foreknowledge of the afterlife. We advise you and your loved one discuss another topic.

The light from SCP-####'s fades and the object continues movement.

SCP-####-B: I'm not sure if you heard that too, but I think we should listen to this thing and not talk about this.

SCP-####-A: No. I got to know if you finally found peace.

<End Log>

Notes:

The surface used for testing SCP-#### contains all letters of the english alphabet in order. A different arrangement of letters may result in different layouts of the "keyboard" used by SCP-####-B.

Information obtained from this test appears to match our records of [DATA EXPUNGED].

Effect:

7 minutes after interaction, SCP-####-A reported sudden tiredness.

Approximately 15 minutes after onset of lethargy, subject fell unconscious and could not be awoken. Under EEG monitoring, subject showed an increase of activity around their pineal gland.

Approximately 3 hours after loss of consciousness​ all activity in SCP-####-A's medulla ceased, stopping all function of their heart and lungs. Heightened activity around the subject's pineal gland continued for approximately 1 hour after medulla shutdown before complete brain death.

This is the only test where after-use effect showed no similarity to SCP-####-B's cause of death, and believed to be caused by SCP-####-1 as punishment for breaking the rules.

SCP-####-B: I lived. F████ lived. Started over from the day he died, like he never jumped in front of that truck. Went on until I was old and gray. All the while still remembering where I really came from. It was both a realm of bliss and pain at the same time. I felt like time rushed the aches and pains that age would bring into my body. All the while having a life without one tragedy leading me the wrong way. And then I died. Can't say more. Against the rules.

<End Log>

Notes:

A different arrangement of letters, resembling a standard QWERTY keyboard, has been used in this test. This resulted in the same arrangement appearing in the "keyboard" used by SCP-####-B.

Effect:

SCP-####-A underwent the same effect as D-82596 in test 16, however subject woke after toll duration.

SCP-####-A recalled nothing after loss of consciousness​.

SCP-#### Test #: 21

SCP-####-A: D-28341

SCP-####-B: D█████ H███████, mother of D-28341

Toll Duration: 1 hours 02 minutes

SCP-####-B’s Cause of Death: Stomach cancer, age 59; 6 years prior to test.

Instructions: SCP-####-A is to continue a conversation for as long as possible.

SCP-####-B: Why did you mess your own life up like that? You had such promise.

SCP-####-A: Maybe if you gave a [expletive] when raising me I would have actually had the [function] motivation.

SCP-####-B: So it's my fault you flunked out of high school.

SCP-####-A: Yes. I told you I was struggling and asked you for help. But, no, you had to go out and [expletive] party all the [expletive] time. Couldn't have even give two flying [expletive] about your only child. Instead you were more worried about who the hell you were dating. Do you know what you put me through with those [expletive]?

SCP-####-B: You were such a smart kid though. I could barely keep up with the things you knew.SCP-####-A: Because everything was [expletive] lost to you after five beers.

SCP-####-B: I don't know what you want from me.

SCP-####-A: An apology. You had six years since you died. Haven't you thought of anything that you did in the fifty-nine years you were alive? The neglect? The alcoholism? The never-ending fights? Anything?

SCP-####-B: What does it matter? It won't change anything.

SCP-####-A: You [expletive].

<End Log>

Notes:

Throughout the test SCP-####-A would speak before SCP-####-B would finish a reply. When this occurred, SCP-#### would change its course of movement suddenly to give a new reply from SCP-####-B.

Effect:

6 minutes after interaction, SCP-####-A reported nausea.

At approximately 30 minutes after interaction, SCP-####-A began to vomit.

Vomiting continued for 50 minutes, where it's believed subject had voided their stomach of any substances.

Subject proceeded to dry heave for 30 minutes before continuing to vomit, in which subject began expelling blood. Subject remained in this state until they died of blood loss.

Post-test autopsy revealed that SCP-####-A had multiple tumors throughout their stomach lining, many of which resulted in internal bleeding.

SCP-#### Test #: 28

SCP-####-A: Researcher Ostrowski

SCP-####-B: SCP-####-1

Toll Duration: N/A, toll not offered

SCP-####-B’s Cause of Death: N/A

Instructions: Researcher Ostrowski is to interview SCP-####-1 in order to find out anything pertaining to working or origins of SCP-####.

Note: For purposes of record keeping this interaction was fully transcribed.

<Begin Log>

Ostrowski: This is the first interview of SCP-####-1. The time is 5:43pm. Researcher Ostrowski places SCP-#### onto surface containing all 26 letters of the English alphabet. I wish to speak to the Operator.

The lens on SCP-#### begins to emit a faint purple light and SCP-####-1 begins speaking.

SCP-####-1: Hello and thank you for using our Oracle Eye by AfterWorld Connections. How may I help you?

Ostrowski: I have some questions about the Oracle Eye.

SCP-####-1: That’s what I’m here for. Ask away.

Ostrowski: How does the Oracle Eye work?

SCP-####-1: The best way I could describe it in mortal terms is that it is similar to a telephone. Someone picks up the receiver and requests to make a call to someone. That is where I would come in. Like a phone operator, I take the requests and connect the call, acting as the cable to do so. Sending signals back and forth through the veil. That's the basics at least.

Ostrowski: Have you ever "connected a call" to someone who would reject the connection?

SCP-####-1: No. The dead seem to be as willing to speak to the living as the reverse is true.

Ostrowski: Ok, I suppose I could see that. The instruction pamphlet that was found with SCP-#### spoke of rules that you seem to enforce. What rules would these be?

SCP-####-1: We at AfterWorld Connections work in information. We can only allow so much to come across the veil.

Ostrowski: Would this be the reason for the toll?

SCP-####-1: Yes. As we are a metaphysical organization, our toll for longer connections must be metaphysical as well.

Ostrowski: What is AfterWorld Connections?

SCP-####-1: My employers.

Ostrowski: Ghosts have jobs?

SCP-####-1: I’m a spirit technically, ghosts are born from this world, I was born on the other side of the veil. It is the responsibility of each Operator to monitor all information that may cross the veil. Each Operator has their own way of doing that. Working with AfterWorld Connections is mine.

Ostrowski: Each Operator? So there's more of you?

SCP-####-1: Yes, but not all of us who work for our organization are one of my kind.

Ostrowski: What else works with AfterWorld Connections?

SCP-####-1: I’m sorry. I’m not authorized to answer that questions. But I can say that you are aware of the beings that started the organization.

Ostrowski: Where does AfterWorld Connections operate from?

SCP-####-1: You already know.

Ostrowski: You said that your organization is not physical. How is it you made a physical object?

SCP-####-1: It's not that we're not physical, it's that we are metaphysical. Merely concepts given independent thought and form. The world on the other side of the veil works in a similar fashion. The concept of wood, the concept of glass, and finally myself to power it. All materials found on this side of the veil may be found on the other.

Ostrowski: So if it was made in your world, how did you get it to this one?

SCP-####-1: Occasionally the veil between worlds becomes thinner. It makes it easier for objects, trinkets, to slip in and out. We just had to wait for the right time and place to send it through.

Ostrowski: How can you tell when the veil is thinning?

SCP-####-1: I'm sorry, I cannot answer that.

Ostrowski: Alright. I have just a couple more questions.

SCP-####-1: Ask away.

Ostrowski: Why was the Oracle Eye created?

SCP-####-1: The Oracle Eye was made because while we from the other side of the veil may reach out to this side, there has been no way to reach in from this side. The Oracle Eye was made as a way for those still living to speak to their loved one on the other side.

Alright, and what are the goals of AfterWorld Connections?

The goals of AfterWorld Connections is to have nothing more than to allow open communications between the worlds. To bring a time when the dead and the living may never truly lose each other. The Master of the Marble Hall came up with our motto: "History never lost, loved ones never missed." I think it's quite noble, personally.

Ostrowski: Thank you, that will be all. Researcher Ostrowski lifts SCP-#### from surface, SCP-####-1 recedes into the lens of SCP-#### Interview concluded. The time is 5:49pm.

<End Log>

Notes:

In spite of the test lasting longer than 5 minutes, SCP-####-1 never offered its toll.

Effect:

Researcher Ostrowski has faced no effect from interaction with SCP-####-1.